Improved bottle



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. OAHOON, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

IM PROVED BOTTLE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5l, 141, dated November 28, 1865.

l section; Fig. 3, a top View of Fig. 2.

My invention consists in an improvement of the wooden bottle or vessel patented by me i February 7, 1865.

The bottle is made by boring into one end ot' a block of wood to within a short distance of the other end, removing; the shavings, and

then pouring into it melted or liquid asphalt or rooiing-cement or sealing-wax or shellac or their equivalent; and, after a t'ew moments, pouring out the same, which leaves a coating on the inside permeating it to some extent, and rendering it impermeable to liquids, such as hlacking, which are composed partly of acids, the said substances resisting the action or effect of acids better than colophony or coiophony and linseed-oil, mentioned in the former patent above alluded to.

The bottle is iitted in Fig. I with a cork stopper, (marked B,) which may be coated with impermeable substances or not, according as to whether or not the cork is tight. It is also covered with paper and then varnished. It may, however, be painted or coated on the outside without the paper, or the entire bottle may be dipped into the same substances used for coating the inside and then papered.

In Fig. 2 the bottle is stoppered in the following manner: Ashoulder, D, is made within about an eighth of an inch of the top, as

large in diameter as the surface will admit. A piece of paper board is then cut to t the shoulder, soaked iu thin varnish, dipped into hot roofing-cement or sealing-wax, and then nailed to the shoulder while the cementis hot. It is afterward covered with paper, on which is marked a segment of acircle,a little smaller in diam eter than the in side ofthe bottle. Over this is placed a metallic button fastened at one end, which serves as a protector and to keep the cover down after it has been opened.

When the bottle is to be opened the button is first turned oft', the blade of a kniie `forced into the stopper, and it is cut to the extent of the circle, leaving a portion uncut to answer for a hinge, (marked C in Fig. 3.)

E represents the button.

Having thus described my improvement, I would remark that I prefer rooting-cement for coating the interior ot' the bottle, when to be used for blacking, which is made with about one-half asphalt and one-haltcoal-tar or pitch. If sealing-wax is used, I prefer that made with one-half shellac, three-eighths rosin, and oneeighth beeswax. I would further remark that the bottle may be made by punching a hole entirely through a block of wood and setting into one end a piece of wood to it the hole to answer for a bottom, dipping it first into cement to make it tight, the lines @c Fig. 2, indicating where the bottom may be fitted.

I claim as an improvement ou the wooden bottle patented by me February 7 1865- A bottle consisting oi'a hollow block of wood and titted with a stopper rendered impermeable to liquids with either of the substances speeilied, or their equivalents.

OHAS. W. OAHOON.

Witnesses:

E. M. LANG, E. P. FURLoNG. 

